Morton A Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) congratulates CIA Director and former Congressman (R-KS) Mike Pompeo on his nomination to become Secretary of State. We also congratulate President Trump for his superb choice of this outstanding patriot Director Pompeo.  Director […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for its ongoing failure to revise its long-standing, pro-terror, anti-peace school textbooks for Palestinian Arab children under its care that teach that the path for Palestinian Arabs to follow is that of seeking victory via “resistance,” jihad, and radical […]

ZOA strongly mourns the passing of a longtime friend, member of the Zionist Organization of America’s National Board, and great pro-Israel activist Congressman Jon Fox (R-PA). U.S. Congressman Fox served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-1999. Prior to that he was a member of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has noted that Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), despite President Donald Trump’s calls last year to cease its incitement to hatred and murder against Israel, is continuing its anti-peace, pro-terror policies, such as continuing to produce maps, atlases, plaques and diagrams that depict ‘Palestine’ as encompassing all of Israel, […]

Rabbi Bruce Warshal’s recent op-ed “Intolerance is a Grievous Stain on Jewish History,” specifically mischaracterizes the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel organization in the country, dedicated to Israel advocacy and the safety and security of Israel. ZOA is non-partisan: ZOA members, officials, staff, speakers, and honorees come from all streams of Judaism […]

In his historic speech to the Knesset in Jerusalem, Vice-President Mike Pence reaffirmed American recognition that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, described the Jewish people’s 3,000-year-old unbreakable bond with Jerusalem, stated that the US will transfer the US Embassy to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, thereby having chosen “fact over fiction,” called upon Mahmoud Abbas’s […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: ZOA strongly praises US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman’s request to the U.S. State Department to stop inaccurately and wrongly referring to the historic Jewish areas of Judea/Samaria as “occupied” in the State Department’s official communications.  (See “Ambassador Friedman: Stop Using the […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: In light of the recent reports that Israel-hater, terrorist supporter Linda Sarsour enabled repeated sexual assaults of a woman who worked for Sarsour at the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY), and that Sarsour threatened the woman victim, ZOA urges the […]

One famous scene in “Sallah,” the internationally acclaimed 1964 Israeli comedy, depicts American philanthropists coming to a Jewish National Fund forest to see the trees for which they ostensibly paid. With each arriving tour group, a worker would simply stick a sign in the ground declaring it to be the, say, “The Goldberg Forest.” When […]